Example sentences of "[be] of an age " in BNC.

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1 The baby bulge birth cohorts have been of an age to have children for some time .
2 It had been a deep and tub-like pram , and they had used it to convey her from place to place long after she had been of an age to be confined in such a vehicle .
3 Because most of the lawyers and judges are of an age where they 've considered , or are already , divorced .
4 Now although there will obviously be occasions when this belief is warranted , when learners are of an age , for example , at which they would not have the capacity or disposition for analytic self-reflection , there seems no good reason for supposing that the belief is universally valid .
5 And , if they maintain their attitude expressed freely to the Official Solicitor 's representative and to their mother , it would be all to no purpose , since no court would make a residence order in favour of the foster mother against the wishes of the children concerned who are of an age to know their own minds .
6 Allowance should be made for the fact that these pupils are of an age where they mou , may either streak ahead of expectation to an enterprise or remain disinterested and static in their reception programmes .
7 Mother-of-so-many said : ‘ You 're of an age and you could do worse .
8 ( Elsewhere , another angry gentleman of the period , Evelyn Waugh , had waited for his children to be of an age to converse with him , before taking an interest . )
9 ‘ You must be of an age , ’ she had said .
10 The first is the assumption that the basis of our timetabling is the year group ; that , however we group pupils for teaching purposes , those pupils will all be of an age .
11 If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted .
12 They were of an age , Hawk and Jennifer , and had been close as teenagers , before Hawk joined up with the Sons of Geronimo and left the Reservation , intent on changing the world .
13 To take just one instance , most of them were of an age to lose brothers , fathers , husbands or the chance of marriage during the Great War ,
14 This lad and Rose were of an age .
15 Whether Evans , now 54 , and who has suffered serious heart problems , is of an age and whether he has the constitution to undertake such a demanding task is another matter .
16 There are , therefore , two key features : first , that the patient is of an age the law regards as proper , and second , that he is of sound mind .
17 Now , I have heard tell in the sultry dens of Freudianism that the psychological scar inflicted by this act of parental desertion frequently induces the daughter , when she is of an age to start questing for a swain , to seek a substitute for the departed archetype .
18 You have to suppose of B that B is of an age to have children .
19 There is no question of a vehicle needing to be fitted with these lamps or indeed any other item — if the vehicle is of an age or type which does not require them .
20 By then , of course , Mr Andrew was of an age to take over . ’
21 By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years .
22 He was of an age and class that still swilled the dregs of colonialism at two in the morning , and the fact this man had black blood in him ( and , he guessed , much else besides ) counted as another mark against Chant 's judgement .
23 But now he was of an age and living in an era whose insecurities craved the reassurance of nursery images , the illusory solidity of Victorian values which , if they had never existed , could always be invented .
24 Alice was of an age when that kind of thing was a danger .
25 He was of an age to be able to wear his hair comfortably short and his chin shaven without eccentricity , probably around fifty .
26 He had married because he too thought he was of an age to settle down , and he had settled .
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